Sirriyeh, Ala 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1866-8901
(2020)
'Dreamers', (un)deserving immigrants and generational interdependence.
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Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Undocumented young people known as the ‘Dreamers’ have become the embodiment of the ‘deserving immigrant’ in US public debates on immigration. Through exploring the narratives of undocumented young organisers in California, this article examines how they came to be framed in this way and the limitations of this as a pathway to social justice. It explores their accounts of organising in the undocumented youth movement to examine how their relationships with their families have influenced their engagement with the Dreamer narrative and its contestation. It was found that the figure of the deserving Dreamer represented an overly individualised account of migrant youth experiences and trajectories. Drawing on a relational understanding of migration and life course pathways, it is argued that undocumented youth are embedded in interdependent intergenerational relationships, which affect their experiences and outcomes and therefore need to be recognised in any pathway to social justice.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | immigrants, intergenerational, undocumented, United States, young people |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2021 15:12 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2023 19:31 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/psp.2370 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2370 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3132396 |
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